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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, Dec. 1, 1955 Advent Season Sparkles With Joy and Promise Christmas is coining But let's not forget the precious four weeks im mediately preceding it. Let's wake up to the opportunity that Advent offers. It is a time of happiness, a proving-time that will help us gear our souls for the full enjoyment of Christmas Day. We'll have to make pleasant mental adjustments if we think Advent is essentially a time of Penance; rather it is a season of complete abandonment to Love. The gifts we give to ones wo love deeply are joyous ones. Our Advent sacrifices are given not just in reparation for sin but also in expec tation of love. Christ is coming His promise fills the weeks of Advent. While we await His coming to the world, we should prepare our souls for His Sacra mental coming to each of us. This preparation is the heart of the happy sea son. But even after we have lived through our last Christmas, we will still have one more Coming of Christ to await his final appearance as Judge of the world. This too can and must be a joyous coming for us. If we would prepare for that Eternal Christmas in a happy way, we will make all our days Ad vent days. Student View . . . Novelist Pearl Buck Bewails Plight of Orphans, Blames Religion of All Things Church members get a warm feeling of doing good when they think of the orphans fed and clothed by their donations. And Nobel prize winner Pearl Buck would have you think that the only reason Catholics maintain orphanages is so they may enjoy a warm feeling of doing good when Christmas and Easter roll around. Nuns have nothing else to do in life but run orphanages; therefore we need orphans. It seems incredible that a woman of Miss Buck's experience and literary- stature could reach the conclusions she does make in her article in the Sep tember Woman's Home Companion. It is further incredible that the Com panion would print such an article. If the implications were not so vicious one could laugh them off. .Miss Buck states Social agencies continually tell us that there are not enough children to satisfy the many couples who want to adopt them. I used to think this was true. From the rest of the article we conclude that Miss Buck was disillu sioned after seeing a TV program depicting Christmas in an orphanage. Ap parently the orphanage contained orphans and this led the author to question the shortage of orphans. Miss Buck maintains that Religion is actually the strongest force keeping children orphaned. Many states continue to require that, whenever practicable, children be placed for adoption only in families of the same religion as their natural parents. The author then cites several touching cases of children being denied good homes, college education, etc. because the prospective foster parents were of the wrong religion. Apparently Miss Buck's prime objective is to place orphans in homes any homes just as long as we can tear down the orphanages. Provided the child has food, shelter, physical security, what difference does religion make? Why, if little Johnny is lucky, and the judge doesn't enforce his ridicul ous law, little Johnny may even get a college education So what if his previ ous religious training is torn to shreds and he's in a state of intellectual and emotional conflict at least he escaped the big bad orphanage Miss Buck's apparent misapprehension about Sisters needing orphanages for work is an unfortunate one. The Catholic school system which up to re cent times has been run exclusively by religious men and women has sud denly become a tremendous field for th e lay apostolate. Why? Simply be cause there are not enough religious to teach. Those who are teaching face overcrowded classes. Practically every Catholic school has at least one lay teacher on its staff. Those who have been treated in Catholic hospitals can attest that whole days may pass without a p atient seeing a Nun. There simply are not enough to go around. The missionary field cries for more courageous women who are willing to give up everything including country for the sake of souls. There are simply not enough religious to go around. And we may add that orphanages themselves need help. Anyone who has ever volunteered her services to one of the orphanages in the city can say that she saw no Nuns sitting in dejected solitude, wondering where the next orphan was coming from. II Miss Buck's attack on charitable institutions is made in sincerity, we hope that she will make a thorough study of the work of religious women, in orphanages and elsewhere, and correct her views in accordance with facts. Beware . . . Christmas Cards Can Be Dangerous Do you choose your Christmas cards to suit your personality? Cards come in all shapes and sizes with enough variety to insure originality for everyone. A surprising number of personalities seem to believe that animals reflect their deeper natures. There is a theory that people look like their pets. Perhaps that accounts for the strange mena gerie that unfolds during the long December days. Every kind of animal from camel to canary makes its appearance. Next come the sweet personalities, who use peppermint sticks to get the idea across to the doubtfuls. But where does that leave the sender of Christmas cards which picture stuffed turkeys People with wanderlust tell all on their cards. Travel agencies can squeeze their budgets till they hurt, with so much free publicity floating around. The only trouble is, you can't always tell whether palm trees mean Florida or Hawaii. Then there are the domestic scenes, such as poor old Dad, still sitting in front of the fireplace, wearing the same pair of slippers You'd think by now he'd turn green from all the pipe smoke that's been circling around his head for years. What does all this have to do with Christmas, you might ask. We might ask the same question. There must be some connection, or is it just a coincidence that these monstrosities show up at the same time every year? Religious cards aren't just for priests and religious. So don't be sur prised when you see one. And if you really want to be original, you might even try sending some. Jne * hu5craper Vol. XXVI Dec. 1, 1955 No. 5 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kielty, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mammoser Associate Diane Letourneau Genevieve Teutsch Student View Rita Caprini Syscrapings ., Maribeth Naughton, Marilyn Santini O Mud and Men, II Alice Bourke Artist Joyce Kuhlmann Reporters Mary Lou Doherty, Geraldine Battista, Michaella Burton, Bea trice Hoang, Maureen Connerty, Marilyn Devereaux, Jeanine Dwyer, Dolores Fer raro, Barbara Guderian, Marilyn Jensen, Sandra Marek, Gloria Mrazek, Marguerite Phillips, Alice Raczak, Lynda Rousseau, Diane Scifres, Lynne Sheeran, Kathleen Slattery, Dorothy Strzechowski, Alma Swea- ton, Ann Toland, Jean Vetterick, Mary- therese Walsdorf, Joan Zander, Marcella Brown, Betty Weiss, Maryann Wilszynski, Janice Zumwalt. Try Do-It-Yourself Diagnosis To Solve Cranial Quirks The alleged causes of mental disor ders used to be loss of money and dis appointment in love. The heavy tariff and the install ment plan solved the first problem by taking the dollar bill away from the average wage-earner before he be came too attached to it; while the man shortage is responsible for making the second situation almost extinct. Although solutions to these dilem mas have been found, medical science has discovered new quirks in our cra- niums and nervous systems. Perhaps most serious are the phobias. You can't be malad justed without one. Are you afraid of examinations, book re ports, term papers, forums, panels, and/or class discussions? Then you are a victim of exetasi- ophobia, bibliologophobia, biblio- phobia, rhesiophobia, dialecto- phobia, and/or dialogismophobia. Do you avoid libraries, aquari ums, or planetariums? You must be suffering from bibliothecophobia, ic- thyolaccophobia, or planetoscopoteri- ophobia. Badizontophobia, herpontophobia, colymbontophobia, petomenophobia, stasimophobia, (if you want a really different name for your child, take your choice) are fears of walking- crawling, swimming, flying, and sta tionary objects. If Mount Vesuvius erupts and you get scared, you have rhyacophobia. Tf you are hit by a tidal wave aTTdsur- vive, you probably have plemmyrido- phobia. If you don't survive your troubles are over. Afraid of losing your dog? Con gratulations, you have cynozemio- phobia. Afraid that winter will last all year? You are an eniau- siochimonophobe. It is almost impossible to escape foam if you have hydrophobia. A series of shots can prevent one type, but try to avoid a foaming glass of water or a Lake Michigan whitecap. Have you tried ginger ale? If you are another Chicken Little, that is if you are waiting for the uni verse to fall apart, you have cosmo- lysophobia. If you are afraid of los ing your love for hard work you had better consult your physician, for you have aponophiliaphobia. If your case has not been mentioned you are either rare or incurable. f l The. PHOBIA BROTHERS f*l ' ySBK-kiii* VjJ *falTAt0 1 V j'wf ll 1// / * * Y n. ( 1 / Jbi*lu gt; 1 s,f 1 , 'pxv.KwM xA JK
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1955-12-01 (2)
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